dexa_scantron

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[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly. She's using straight needles (with a knob on one end) instead of double-pointed needles. DPNs are also straight I guess! But "straight needles" specifically means the ones with one point and a knob.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There was a bizarre movement in the Victorian era to get people to knit with their needles held with tips pointed down because it's "more ladylike" but it's also very difficult and irritating to knit that way so it didn't catch on.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I don't think there's any way to knit a tubular sock on straight needles; the geometry doesn't allow it. You can knit a sock flat and then sew it up into a tube, but it would look different from the comic.

Edit: actually now that I've thought about it more, I think there is a way but it would be super annoying (slip every other stitch so you're knitting the back and front of the tube at the same time, that might work...). Basically the equivalent of writing a letter by writing every other word and then going back to fill in the rest. Possible, but no reason to do it.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's called 'frogging' (because you rip-it, rip-it), and you don't use needles to do it.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

He also made him a buff/hot space traveler who fist fights the devil and wins (the protagonist of Out of the Silent Planet/Perelandra is based on Tolkien).

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Artists. I beg you. Do any research into what knitting looks like before drawing someone knitting.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

There are 15,000 McDonald's in the US and turnover is pretty high. It's an old stat but I don't expect it's changed much over time.

My husband and MIL both worked there so it tracks with my family members at least!

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald's, so that's quite a lot.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

In their 90s? Gimme some bread and dancing then!

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ugh, those reel leashes, where the human is on one side of the path looking off into the distance in thought/on their phone, the dog is on the other side of the path, and the leash is stretched across like a clothesline.

 

 

I have a friend who likes making care packages for people; anyone know of a good outlet for that? Before Reddit got big there were a few good places on there but I'm drawing a blank now.

 

Most of the leadership of the Columbia strike in 1968 was young men like myself. That no longer appears to be the case — either at Columbia or the other university protests around the country.

In 1968 we made the mistake of answering the police violence with anger, fighting them and calling them pigs. We blurred the line between nonviolence (the occupation of buildings) and violence (our slogans and rhetoric), thereby undercutting our moral position.

The students protesting the slaughter in Gaza, with their diverse leadership are making no such mistakes. They are thoroughly nonviolent. There may be individuals or provocateurs who defy the strategy, but at least the protesters are trying to make their intention clear. In a little-reported Instagram post last week entitled “Columbia’s Gaza Student Protest Community Values,” they wrote “At universities across the nation our movement is united in valuing every human life” and “We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry.” Setting up tents and praying for the souls of the dead, all the dead, is not violence.

 

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“Nurses are not against scientific or technological advancement, but we will not accept algorithms replacing the expertise, experience, holistic, and hands-on approach we bring to patient care,” they added.

 

I started editing Wikipedia more seriously over the last couple of months, and this video has a bunch of useful information and how-tos that I wish I had then, and some stuff that I still didn't know. I really like contributing to such a useful resource, and knowing that every little edit I make helps everybody who wants to learn about that topic!

 

A senior Trump advisor shared a video that seems to show an NBC reporter badmouthing Republican presidential candidates. It appears AI was used to imitate the reporter's voice.

 
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